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AP Human Geography Rubenstein Chapter 4 Folk Culture Flashcards

BHS Weatherley 2010-2011

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87337134ArtifactAny item, made by humans, that represents a material aspect of culture0
87337135Built environmentThe man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter to neighborhoods to the large-scale civic surroundings.1
87337136Core-domain-sphere modelThe place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest.2
87337137Cultural convergenceThe contact and interaction of one culture to another.3
87337138Cultural/environmental perceptionThe concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use.4
87337139Cultural landscapeModifications to the environment by humans, including the built environment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if their culture5
87337140Cultural realmThe entire region throughout which a culture prevails. Criteria that may be chosen to define culture realms include religion, language, diet, customs, or economic development.6
87337141Cultural hearthLocations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose.7
87337142Cultural complexThe group of traits that define a particular culture.8
87337143Cultural traitThe specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture.9
87337144Cultural regiona region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features.10
87337145CustomPractices followed by the people of a particular cultural group.11
87337146Environmental determinismA doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions.12
87337147Folk culture (folkways)Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.13
87337148Food attractionReasons certain culture/region eat certain types of food.14
87337149Habita repetitive act that a particular individual performs.15
87337150Material cultureThe physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture16
87337151MentifactThe central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.17
87337152Popular cultureDynamic culture based in large, heterogeneous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods.18
87337153PossibilismThe theory that the physical may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives.19
87337154SociofactThe institutions and links between individuals and groups that unite a culture, including family structure and political, educational and religious institutions.20
87337155Tabooa restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom.21
87337156Uniform Landscapethe spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another.22
87337157Expansion diffusionthe spread of an innovation or an idea through a population in an area23
87337158Relocation diffusionsequential diffusion process in which the items being diffused are transmitted by their carrier agents as they evacuate the old areas and relocate the new ones24

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